Today we went for an outing to the Zoological Museum at the University of Zurich. It was cool – basically tons of stuffed animals displayed in a sparse and modern building. Plus, they have stations where you can press buttons to hear different bird or animal sounds. Buttons are good for three year olds. The space…

Sometimes my girls help me make my bed.  

Nothing exciting is happening here. Here’s a video from this morning. Claire has been sounding like a kitty and check out Bea’s camera face. Note to self – get a video of Bea when she’s not expecting it. Oh and we went to another Chilbi (it’s like a fair without the animals). There was a…

That is Brian’s schedule this week. His work has been crazy busy recently. We’re hoping he can take a breath soon. 

Bea learned the word schnecke at her spielgruppe. Schnecke means snail and spielgruppe means playgroup. So today we made schnecke cookies – pink ones of course.

It’s a new and rare moment when Bea agrees to have her picture taken. After I finished making a dress for her today she was inspired to run around in it. Knock on wood… I feel like we might be getting over the hump of adjusting to being a big sister and dealing with some…

We went for a walk around our little dorf this weekend. The little town where we live is so safe and quiet. Even the graffiti is tame – it makes me laugh. It’s so not bad. It’s the opposite of South Chicago. It’s the Diet Coke of bad.    We always see these goats –…

SO – I have been meaning to write this post for four months. It’s kind of self-indulgent but it’s also a story that I want to remember. It’s the story – what I remember of it – of when Claire was born. It’s late again and I should be in bed now but I decided…

I’ve noticed that Bea is really getting the hang of some things like playing with play dough. Last time we played with play dough she didn’t know how to roll it into balls. Today she made a whole family of play dough balls and some slugs too. We have huge slugs that hang out on…

We had to take a walk to do our recycling this morning and on our way out we noticed that some men were getting ready to paint the lines on our road. I don’t think they were very much in need of a repaint but they had scraped off the all old lines. And when…